Cut the red tape, Lott says

[tocqueville]

Criticizes FEMA for holding up 20,000 trailers 'sitting in Atlanta'

Tuesday, September 6, 2005 Posted: 0112 GMT (0912 HKT)

POPLARVILLE, Mississippi (CNN) -- Sen. Trent Lott berated both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and his own state's emergency management, MEMA, for being mired in red tape at a time of urgent need given the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina.

Lott said he has been trying to get FEMA to send 20,000 trailers "sitting in Atlanta" to the Mississippi coast, and he urged President Bush during a meeting Monday to intervene. He said FEMA has refused to ship the trailers until contracts are secured.

"FEMA and MEMA need to be saying, 'Yes' to Mississippi's needs, not, 'No.," the former majority leader said in a written statement.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/05/katrina.lott/index.html

[unhappycamper]

1. That's interesting.

Two days ago he was completely satisfied with the federal response.

[JimmyJazz]

2. Do you think maybe he realized that the people in his state are VERY

unhappy with the way things are going and that perhaps stating things are going well might cost him when he's up for re-election? Or maybe he just saw with his own eyes the massive incompetence of FEMA? Either way, more power to him for going public with his crticism of FEMA.

[xultar]

3. I thought MS had everything they needed. Hummmm this is some

interesting shit.

I bet MS wishes they had Honore!

[nine23]

4. I think he just realized...

...it's gonna take WEEKS to get his new deck built, as all his slave labour has moved out of state...